Sketch Page 944 - Golden Eagle

A golden eagle study.  I bought some books about color theory yesterday so it's time for some reading and application.  Here's a majestic pokey-beaked birb. The books have helped a little bit already.  Obviously, I have a long way to go but I think this bird is showing progress compared to my other studies..?

The books are "Fill your Oil Paintings with Light & Color" by Kevin Macpherson  (I'm basing this study on lessons from that book)

and "Color and Light" by James Gurney

Sketch Page 943 - Duck Park

Not much time to paint tonight so here is a quick value study of a ref photo from a park close to where i live. 

Sketch Page 942 - tiger

Tiger study

Sketch Page 935 - Corgis!

A quick paint for a Sketch Dailies topic on Twitter.

I'd been feeling out-of-sorts and down all day so I jammed out to some Madeon and painted up some dancing corgis to help my self feel better.  It worked!  Its difficult to remain down when you're painting corgis :3

Drakengard-Style

Trying out some paint ideas.

I've been on a huge Drakengard kick lately.  It's a very weird, very cool game with DRAGONS with crazy horns and tails.  I like it a lot. :)

I'm listening to the NieR (Drakengard's successor) soundtrack right now and trying not to cry because it is beautiful.  Seriously, go listen to it.

Illustration update

I made some changes to the Shadow and Beast concept based upon suggestions. (Shadow and Beast is a tentative title name... titles are hard)  

I think this works!  Will start color soon.

Sketch Page 876

Quick horse study

Sketch Page 874

Elephant study.  I noticed on my last painting- the one of Luna- it looks like she is SUPER saturated on other computers.  Maybe I need to recalibrate my laptop screen.  Anyway, I tried to compensate for it in this study.  We'll see!

Sketch Page 857 - lion study

This took about 3 or 4  hours?  I'm not sure, I paint slowly.  I have some sketch pages to post from last month, those should be put up soon... This was a nice break from work, it's the first thing I've drawn for myself this month!  

More coming up soon.

Maybe.

Sketch Page 855

15 minute face study.  Its sometimes painful going through with a painting when you can see that it's off but you don't know HOW to make it work.  Hopefully, with the more studies that I do, understanding how things work will come to me. 

Sketch Page 834 Dreamcatcher progress

Further progress on the dreamcatchers.  If you're wondering why this is taking so long, I work on it in drips and drabs when I dont have anything to work on at my job.  Thankfully, those times are few and far between.  

I think they are finally in the style I want them to be so I'll finish the third one and then move on!

Sketch Page 833 dragonfly

Quick paint of a dragonfly.  It's a little bit blurry because I had to resize it.

More Landscape studies

Ewlligator

I didn't like how this was turning out, so it was abandoned.  OH WELL.  I call it "Ewlligator"... even though it is a crocodile.

Klymene, the Forest Spirit - quick paint

I noticed something while at work - I am molasses slow when it comes to churning out concepts.  Ridiculously slow.  STUPID SLOW, EVEN.

So I'm going to try to focus on conveying ideas fast.  The focus isn't on a finished work (although I may go back and rework some of these pieces) the goal is to make the idea readable, quickly.  Today's quick paint was on a 30 minute timer.  As much as I wanted to keep painting on it, I forced myself to quit.  I really like how this turned out.  I'd like to visit it later but for now I will leave it alone.

Fire Wizard color tests

Started doing some color tests/ lighting tests for the fire wizard.  The fire wizard was made and colored before but that was a more cartoon-y style - not quite following what I originally wanted him to be.  WIP

Apple study 2 and 3

 Better this time, I think.  Apple on the left was lit from my bedroom window.  Unfortunately I started it rather late in the day so I lost my light before I could finish.  Had to guess during the render part :( 

Oh!  The labels have failed me!  The middle picture is the blocking stage and the bottom one is render.

11 out of 20 sketchbook pages (will post new pages later)

5 out of 10 colored pieces.

Hm, the outlook on reaching my goal is pretty grim (dang you, Youtube!).  We'll see what happens.

Sketch Page 640

Poison dart frog studies.

Sketch Pages 631-636

 

Horse WIP